The Government reacted to the complaints of users who suffered power cuts and issued a
harsh warning to
Edesur
, the concession company that registered failures in its service that affected more than 180,000 users.
"
Our pulse will not tremble
if that implies having to
terminate the concession contract for the
electrical distribution service in charge of the EDESUR company," said Flavia Royón, Secretary of Energy, this Sunday.
In a severe
Twitter thread ,
the official who reports to Economy Minister Sergio Massa anticipated
measures ordered by the ENRE
, the electricity service regulator, in the hands of massista Walter Martello.
"I have just instructed the ENRE to
initiate the corresponding administrative actions
to solve immediately, and definitively, this type of situation that
is repeated year after year
," Royón reported and lashed out: "The ENRE will immediately instruct to reinforce the crews to restore the service and
will start the audit of compliance with the summer plan presented
",
The Economy official started a Twitter thread late this Sunday night.
"We have reports that
hundreds of families
have been without electricity for days
. They have one thing in common,
they are all EDESUR customers,
" he contextualized, before launching the threat of the end of the concession for the company whose owners, the Italian Enel, for months , try to get rid of their assets in Argentina.
This Friday, given the strong heat wave that persists in the City of Buenos Aires and the Buenos Aires suburbs -this Sunday the thermometers marked 38.1° in Buenos Aires, the highest record for February in 60 years-, the concessionaire went out to explain their position on the cuts registered in a statement.
"Due to a deficit in electricity generation,
the system operator asked us to
temporarily interrupt the supply to 180,000 customers until the lack of energy is gradually restored," Edesur had pointed out at that time through social networks.
And after cardboard, he updated: "After Sacme's request to temporarily interrupt the supply to 180,000 customers, we are working in the
Florencio Varela and Berazategui area to normalize the service. We keep in touch
. "
Already this Sunday, the company reported that the electricity demand at 4:00 p.m., nationwide, registered a
"historical record"
for the records of a similar day of the week.
There were
25,676 MW of electricity consumption,
which exceeded the mark of Sunday, December 11, 2021, when the figure amounted to 23,724 MW.
The Massista idea that the State stays with Edesur
Precisely, it had been
Martello, the head of the ENRE, the first to advance on the possibility
of removing the concession from Edesur.
It was after the cuts registered during the New Year and the massista official then made a
proposal that went further
in the role of the Government: "It is possible that most of
the shares of Edesur are bought by the State
," he postulated then.
Walter Martello, ENRE controller, will act before Edesur at the request of Flavia Royón, the Secretary of Energy.
“It is something that I personally have raised in my previous role as Ombudsman of the Province of Buenos Aires, I raised the nationalization of the company.
Politics must later discuss the issue of resources," said Martello, who has now received Royón's mandate to act before the new cuts registered.
Stoked by the official.
Martello also lashed out at the firm on Twitter this Sunday.
"Given the serious situation and as indicated by the Ministry of Energy and the technical examination that we will formulate, we will act accordingly due to
the possible expiration of the concession of the
electrical distribution service by the company Edesur," Martello said in his networks. .
And he added: "We know that it is a
process that takes time and legal-administrative evaluations
based on contractual breaches that could lead to said resolution, but we understand that our commitment to the user makes it essential
to start said process
."
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February with oppressive heat: 38.1°, the highest temperature recorded in the City in more than 60 years
In the midst of the heat wave, 180,000 Edesur users were left without electricity due to "electric generation deficit"